Bernard E Bahle Jr SCORPION
N396F is a Bernard E Bahle Jr SCORPION, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crossville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bernard E Bahle Jr
- Model
- SCORPION
- Serial number
- 396
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotorway RW-162 · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A49990 (octal 51114620)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 26, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 15, 2018
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01269590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bahle Bernard E JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8220 Genesis Rd
Crossville, TN 38571-0372
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N396F, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bahle Bernard E JR, an individual, certificate issued December 26, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N396F according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N396F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data